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Meta Still getting downvotes - what are you guys doing about it?

I am sorry for the aggravation. Clearly we're going to need to bump up the priority of voting-fraud mitigation. We've taken action against the user (yes, as you suspected, one user) and the votes...

posted 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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#2: Post edited by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2022-02-09T14:38:18Z (over 2 years ago)
  • I am sorry for the aggravation. Clearly we're going to need to bump up the priority of voting-fraud mitigation.
  • We've taken action against the user (yes, as you suspected, one user) and the votes will be invalidated. That's just playing whack-a-mole, though. There are a few things we can adjust in community settings; I'll list them so the community can discuss them and decide what to do.
  • 1. This community is in "new" mode, which means everybody starts with Participate Everywhere. The goal was to help bootstrap the community, so that everybody wouldn't be limited to just a few posts and votes a day while building content. Y'all have been doing a great job of building this community for more than a year now; **should we remove the "new" setting?** At the base Participate, you have limited posting rights and, more germane to this issue, can vote only on answers to your own questions. People would then have to earn Participate Everywhere, which is based on well-received posts.
  • 2. The daily vote limits for both Participate and Participate Everywhere are configurable. **We can lower one or both of those vote limits**. Tell us how many votes per day make sense to y'all for your current level of activity and we can change those.
  • 3. The thresholds for granting abilities are configurable. **We can make it easier or harder to earn Participate Everywhere** or any of the other abilities. (Only relevant if you also do #1.)
  • These are the things we can do today. I'm also going to discuss vote-fraud detection with the team to see what we can implement and when. Again, I am sorry for the frustration this causes.
  • I am sorry for the aggravation. Clearly we're going to need to bump up the priority of voting-fraud mitigation.
  • We've taken action against the user (yes, as you suspected, one user) and the votes will be invalidated. That's just playing whack-a-mole, though. There are a few things we can adjust in community settings; I'll list them so the community can discuss them and decide what to do.
  • 1. **[Implemented]** This community is in "new" mode, which means everybody starts with Participate Everywhere. The goal was to help bootstrap the community, so that everybody wouldn't be limited to just a few posts and votes a day while building content. Y'all have been doing a great job of building this community for more than a year now; **should we remove the "new" setting?** At the base Participate, you have limited posting rights and, more germane to this issue, can vote only on answers to your own questions. People would then have to earn Participate Everywhere, which is based on well-received posts.
  • 2. The daily vote limits for both Participate and Participate Everywhere are configurable. **We can lower one or both of those vote limits**. Tell us how many votes per day make sense to y'all for your current level of activity and we can change those.
  • 3. The thresholds for granting abilities are configurable. **We can make it easier or harder to earn Participate Everywhere** or any of the other abilities. (Only relevant if you also do #1.)
  • These are the things we can do today. I'm also going to discuss vote-fraud detection with the team to see what we can implement and when. Again, I am sorry for the frustration this causes.
#1: Initial revision by user avatar Monica Cellio‭ · 2022-02-09T01:09:13Z (over 2 years ago)
I am sorry for the aggravation.  Clearly we're going to need to bump up the priority of voting-fraud mitigation.

We've taken action against the user (yes, as you suspected, one user) and the votes will be invalidated.  That's just playing whack-a-mole, though.  There are a few things we can adjust in community settings; I'll list them so the community can discuss them and decide what to do.

1. This community is in "new" mode, which means everybody starts with Participate Everywhere.  The goal was to help bootstrap the community, so that everybody wouldn't be limited to just a few posts and votes a day while building content.  Y'all have been doing a great job of building this community for more than a year now; **should we remove the "new" setting?**  At the base Participate, you have limited posting rights and, more germane to this issue, can vote only on answers to your own questions.  People would then have to earn Participate Everywhere, which is based on well-received posts.

2. The daily vote limits for both Participate and Participate Everywhere are configurable.  **We can lower one or both of those vote limits**.  Tell us how many votes per day make sense to y'all for your current level of activity and we can change those.

3. The thresholds for granting abilities are configurable.  **We can make it easier or harder to earn Participate Everywhere** or any of the other abilities.  (Only relevant if you also do #1.)

These are the things we can do today.  I'm also going to discuss vote-fraud detection with the team to see what we can implement and when.  Again, I am sorry for the frustration this causes.